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    Tuesday, February 12. 2013

    Blogging update


    You might have noticed that I haven't been blogging much lately.  The truth is, I haven't been feeling very well.  It's not that I'm getting any worse; it's that I seemed to have stopped getting better.  I did real well (according to the doc) after my tumor operation, but it seems like sometime during November I kind of leveled off at about 75% better.  I still have bouts of weakness and sleepiness and a physical feeling bordering on nausea.  And I just haven't found it in me to write about anything.  As long-time readers know, even my most dire and scariest of articles, like the ones on the domestic spy drones, still have an upbeat, chipper edge to them, just because that's who I am.

    They already did one standard blood test but the doc wants to do a more elaborate test, which I just can't afford right now.  I'm already into the hospital for almost 300 clams and don't want to sink any deeper, nor am I sure they'd let me.  I still have my operation's donation link here, but I wouldn't hope for any help on this.  It's one thing to pitch in when someone's got a pending operation, whereas everybody's got medical bills.  But I felt obligated to toss it out there.

    By the way, there was one ironic note that I forgot to mention in my post-op posts.  Within a few weeks of my operation, both my mother and a close friend up in Miami Beach had operations that involved surgery.

    Both of them got infections after the operation.  Thankfully, modern medicine came to their rescue.

    Me, getting my operation in dirty, filthy, don't-drink-the-water Mexico, sailed through without a hitch.

    That says something -- but I'm honestly not sure what.

    If I do end up just kind of fading away, I'd like to say what an honor it's been to blog here these past five years.  In twenty years of being online, I have never seen a site like it.  Where else will you see video essays like my posts on horses, baseball and the amazing Jackie Evancho, only to next read an inside look at the higher education bubble, followed by a penetrating inquiry into the human psyche -- then end up with 'Chipmunk Of The Week'?

    There's just no putting a price on something like that.


    God bless you all.

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